I Want My Selfie Back!!!

Over the last week, several high profile celebrities (e.g., Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton) have reportedly become the latest victims of internet privacy rights violations. In those cases, hackers supposedly obtained private, risqué photographs of the celebrities and disseminated them for publication over the internet. In response to the photographs, lawyers have sent the obligatory cease and desist letters and appealed to the community to ignore the illegally obtained photographs. Only time will tell whether the photographs will ever be permanently deleted from the vast domain that is the World Wide Web.

Although you may not have any Oscars or a photo on the cover of Sports Illustrated, what if you become a victim of a similar violation of privacy? Is there anything that you can do? What is your recourse? Unfortunately, in this free and open internet age, the available remedies for misappropriation of photographs or other electronic information are somewhat